Women's Basketball

Rams Edge NYU-Poly in Conference Win

Dec 01, 2011

Farmingdale State - 48, NYU-Poly - 39

Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Farmingdale women's basketball team used a late second half run with seven minutes to play to take a 48-39 conference victory over NYU-Poly (3-3, 0-1). The Rams improved to 2-3, 1-0 in the Skyline with the win.

In the first half, both teams were stuck in a defensive battle, seeing a span of six minutes without a basket. The Jays built up a six point lead before senior Margaux Pickell (Howell, N.J.) added a pair of free throws with 5:37 left to play.

With an eight point NYU-Poly advantage, 17-9, sophomore Tabitha Larsen (Ramsey, N.J.) hit another jumper to increase the lead to ten, but Farmingdale State went on a 9-0 run to end the half and would trail 19-18 at the break.